(2006-02-16) Bray Ajax Templating Client

Tim Bray thinks we may be able to use AJAX to push more computation from the Web Server/Application Server/Template System to the Rich Client, improving Scalability. I guess that, to the extent that you have a bunch of things kinda like Portlet-s on a page, then having the client do the layout work makes sense. But you're still going to have to depend on the Application Server to deliver all those particular chunks, and to do the local-layout work... right? Ah, but if you think of a page (like a WebLog) page as mainly consisting of chunks of static content that are currently assembled dynamically, you can instead deliver the container page and each chunk as a static object (for which you can use something extra-fast like LightTPD), with the browser calling each piece via Client Side Include and doing the assembly.